However, after Bruce was given 20 months credit for the 10 months he spent in pre-trial custody - leaving him with three years and four months to serve - the victim angrily stormed out of the courtroom, calling the sentence a "joke" and saying the judge had "spat on her face."

According to agreed facts, Bruce had been at a friend's wedding party that night at Duggan Community Hall, 3728 106 St., but was asked to leave after becoming highly intoxicated and causing a disturbance.

He then approached the then-25-year-old victim as she was walking home from her bus stop and placed a knife at her neck and demanded her digital music player.

He then forced her to go to a nearby park, saying he would "cut her throat" if she refused, and then made the pleading woman perform a sex act on him at knifepoint.

He then ordered her to lie on her back, took off his pants and was removing her pants when Joe and T.J. Turcotte, twin 16-year-old boys, came to the rescue.

Bruce fled after seeing the twins - who later were given awards for bravery by police - but they chased after him and pinned him to the ground following a fight.

Police then showed up and the struggling Bruce, who threatened to find out where the twins lived and kill them and spat on the victim after saying "Canada is for whites, not blacks," was eventually put into a police cruiser.

Bruce spat on one of the officers and began swearing and yelling at them. He also began banging his head on the glass and kicking the door before finally being hobbled.

He was then taken to hospital where he became belligerent to staff and attempted to bite a police officer and kick a security guard in the groin before spitting on the pair.

Bruce later told a detective he had drank a lot of alcohol and taken crack cocaine, codeine and Valium. He also said that he hates women and was angry and depressed.

He stated that after being kicked out of the wedding, he felt "betrayed and the need to smash someone."

The victim told court the attack taught her "there is evil everywhere" and said she no longer trusts people. She then confronted Bruce, telling him he had made her stronger and his life would be ruined without change.

She also told him that she had forgiven him.

Bruce thanked the victim and the twins after telling court he had disgraced himself and his family.

Justice Eric Macklin slammed Bruce for humiliating and degrading the victim and called his racist remarks "callous, repugnant, cruel and intolerable in this country."

The judge said a sentence of five years and eight months was appropriate, but deducted eight months for Bruce's guilty plea, remorse and lack of a prior criminal record.